The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the 'white gold' that fueled slavery – Repeating Islands
A report by Khalil Gibran Muhammad for The New York Times. Domino Sugar’s Chalmette Refinery in Arabi, La., sits on the edge of the mighty Mississippi River, about five miles east by way of the river’s bend from the French Quarter, and less than a mile down from the Lower Ninth Ward, where Hurricane Katrina and the…
Source: repeatingislands.com
